{"id":1746,"date":"2010-03-30T23:58:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2016-02-18T23:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T04:28:49","slug":"stellinis-pasta-gusto-224-oneil-court-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Stellini&apos;s Pasta Gusto, 224 O&apos;Neil Court: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/03\/stellinis_pasta_gusto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/03\/stellinis_pasta_gusto_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/med_chicken1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/med_chicken1_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Stellini's<\/i> was on the corner nearest to <i>Columbia Mall<\/i> at <i>The Shops at O'Neil Court<\/i>.  I believe it was perhaps the longest lasting restaurant in that little hard-luck plaza, though as I recall the sports bar run by the <i>Very's<\/i> folks lasted a number of years as well.<\/p>\n<p>This ad from the 1998 <i>Bellsouth<\/i> yellow pages claims the largest selection of pasta in Columbia.  I actually can't remember much about that.  If I am remembering correctly, the times we went there, what most impressed me was the garlic bread, which was strong and gooey, not that \"hint of garlic on overbaked toast\" thing some places do.  I <i>do<\/i> think they had a number of pesto dishes which weren't too common at the time, but while I might try one now, at that point I was still fully in tomato-based mode.<\/p>\n<p>I don't think business was ever great in this location despite theoretical drive-by traffic between Columbia Mall and Two Notch, and I wasn't too surprised when the place closed.  I believe at least two other restaurants tried the spot (there was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=86\">definitely one<\/a>) but nothing ever lasted long-term, and currently the space is empty and available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellini's was on the corner nearest to Columbia Mall at The Shops at O'Neil Court. I believe it was perhaps the longest lasting restaurant in that little hard-luck plaza, though as I recall the sports bar run by the Very's folks lasted a number of years as well. This ad from the 1998 Bellsouth yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1623,78,5,101,90,3,1881],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-224-oneil-court","tag-dentsville","tag-historic","tag-italian","tag-oneil-court","tag-restaurants","tag-the-shops-of-oneil-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}